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GENEWS ONLINE is the online edition of the official publication of The UPLB Genetics Society. The UPLB Genetics Society, also known as GeneSoc, is a duly recognized academic organization at UP Los Banos. The organization strives to promote and create awareness about the science of Genetics in the Philippines.

This year’s champion team is composed of three senior BS
Biology students, namely, Micah Dispo, Roselyn Solomon, and Jericho Allain Kyle
Vidad, together with Mr. Enrico Jugadora as their coach. The team received
P15,000.00 in cash, certificate of recognition, plaque, and medals.

This year's NIGQC champion, UP Baguio, as they receive the award together with the judges and NIGQC heads.

UP Baguio is remarkable in NIGQC history for bagging the
championship title during the first installment of the quiz contest in 1998. On
the second edition of NIGQC in 2000, they won as the second placer. Last year,
with over fourteen universities competing, the team finished at the fourth
spot.

“It was so hard but it was definitely worth it. The event was
great by the way and you know we’re grateful for this opportunity,” said Dispo.
The team also revealed that they would like to give justice to their school’s
ranking last year hence the eagerness to once again snatch the victory this
time.

Meanwhile, Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) and Ateneo de
Zamboanga University (AdZU) came in at second and third spot, receiving
P7,500.00 and P5,000.00 in cash, respectively.

Despite the 1st runner-up finish this year, Ateneo
still managed to clinch the top spot in the Individual Examination Round
courtesy of Johanne Michael Flores.

This year’s NIGQC was packed with brain-draining questions in
line with the theme Medical Genetics:
Paving the way for Innovations in Health Sciences. Among the people who
graced the event was the esteemed panel of judges including UPLB’s resident genetics
experts Dr. Merlyn Mendioro and Professor Emeritus Azucena Carpena, and medical
doctors Adrian Oscar Bacena, Ma-am Joy Tumulak, and Catherine Lynn Silao.

A total of eleven (11) universities participated in this
year’s NIGQC. Along with the winners, the rest of the participating schools
included Bicol University (BU), De La Salle Lipa (DLSL), Far Eastern University
(FEU), Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU), St. Scholastica’s College
Manila (SSC-M), Southern Luzon State University (SLSU), University of the
Philippines Manila (UPM), and University of Santo Tomas (UST).

Participants, coaches, and judges of this year's NIGQC together with GeneSoc members.

The event, hosted and organized by The UPLB Genetics Society,
was in cooperation with Livestock Biotechnology Center and Diamed Enterprise,
in partnership with the Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and
Sciences, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in
Agriculture (SEARCA), and UPLB University Student Council, and sponsored by
Eat-sumo Teri Haus, Signeffex, MyPrint Zone, USAID, When In Manila, Kwiknet,
and Berry’s Cuisine.#

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About The UPLB Genetics Society

The UPLB Genetics Society, also known as GeneSoc, is a duly recognized academic organization in UPLB that was established in 1983. Through the years, the organization strives to promote and create awareness about the science of Genetics in the Philippines.